On Vie 21 Jun 2002 17:33, Greg A. Woods wrote: > [ On Friday, June 21, 2002 at 18:37:20 (+0100), Paul Jakma wrote: ] > > > Subject: Re: Backing up PostgreSQL? > > > > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > > Where does it say that close/open will flush metadata? > > > > > > That's how the unix filesystem works. UTSL. > > > > that's an implementation issue - you cant rely on it. > > Apparently you can on anything but linux, and I'm rather stunned by the > situation with the latter....
Other UNIX? If you could rely on it, why does Informix (and other database servers, but this is the one I used) still use it's own FS to write the database files? -- Porqué usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera, si podés usar PostgreSQL? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Martín Marqués | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programador, Administrador, DBA | Centro de Telematica Universidad Nacional del Litoral -----------------------------------------------------------------